Hi,
I have been lurking for a while, thought I'd best introduce myself. I joined this list because I
wanted to get back into the swing of things bike-wise having been purely motorised and pedestrian
since shortly before my older son was born. He's just had his 9th birthday. Prior to that I'd been
riding as a means of transport for about 16 years, mainly on an old and much-loved Raleigh, which
finally gave up the ghost when I was hugely pregnant (maybe it wasn't designed to carry an 8 months
pregnant woman).
The long term plan is, once the boy has got the hang of it, to use our machines to explore the
surrounding area and get some exercise and have some fun. Day and half day trips, there are some
nice places to visit round here (east Kent).
I can't see me ever becoming highly technical in the hardware sense (I am actually a software
engineer by trade - currently teaching - so hardware's never exactly been my kind of thing apart
from basic maintenance and upgrade stuff) and I very much doubt that racing is something I will ever
want to do.Eventually, when the boys (I have a 7 year old, son as well but he's probably not going
to want to wait until he's 9 for his bike) are up to it, I want to do the whole of cycle route 1
(North to South), possibly during the school summer holidays, camping or hostelling. That's not
going to happen for a while yet though.
To be honest a lot of what you are talking about is way above my head, but I am learning!
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Tina Eager